WATER QUALITY PROJECTS.

SEC. 307. WATER QUALITY PROJECTS. (a) Project Description.— The Secretary is authorized to design and construct projects to address water quality problems associated with storm water discharges from large storm events for the New Orleans, Louisiana, metropolitan area, from within the Jefferson and Orleans Parishes from which waters discharge into Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River, the watershed areas of Onondaga County and Syracuse, New York, from which waters discharge into Onondaga Lake, New York; the watershed areas of the Penobscot River in the vicinity of Bangor, Maine, and the Casco Bay in the vicinity of Portland, Maine; and the watershed areas of Narragansett Bay in the vicinity of the Providence, Rhode Island, metropolitan area, including East Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls, Rhode Island. (b) Project Design.— The design of projects under subsection (a) shall ensure the development of effective Federal and non-Federal actions which will contribute toward compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (c) Cost Sharing.— Total project costs under subsection (a) shall be shared at 75 percent Federal and 25 percent non-Federal. The non-Federal sponsor shall receive credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations toward its share of project costs, but not to exceed 25 percent of total project costs. Operation and maintenance cost shall be 100 percent non-Federal. (d) Authorization of Appropriations.— There is authorized to be appropriated $70,000,000 to carry out this section. Such sums shall remain available until expended.